Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Fertility preference (M_FERTPREFMN)

Data file: ZAF2016-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 496

End: 497

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
10	Have another
20	Undecided
30	No more
40	Not at risk of having more children
41	Sterilized (respondent or partners)
42	Wife/partner declared infecund
43	Never had sex
44	Man declared infecund
45	No partner
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

FERTPREFMN (MV602) reports responses to the question, "Would you like to have a (another) child or would you prefer not to have any (more) children"? The standard response categories are "have another," "no more/none," "undecided," and various categories related to not being at risk of having more children (such as sterilization, infecundity, and not having a partner).

In IPUMS-DHS, all responses in the general category of "not at risk of having more children" share a common first digit of 4, while the second digit distinguishes between the specific reasons (for example, code "41" for "Sterilized [respondent or partners]").

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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